lostinscapes

“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember, it's that you'll remember.”
― Sarah Manguso

“We live so many lives within our lives – smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up – and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.”
― Ia Genberg, The Details

“When we buried him, we planted flowers on his grave, and every time I visited I saw that those flowers were my father, were made out of him. He was being born again into the earth, in a new form, and it wouldn't be long until all of his atoms were dispersed across the village, then the country, and then the world, carried off inside birds, growing into plants, and into butterflies. What was the garden, then, if not heaven, if not a place made up of everything that had been lost to us, if not an afterlife? After that, the whole world could be heaven to me.”
― Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

“What you have to understand," she says, "is that things can thrive in unimaginable conditions. All they need is the right sort of skin.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea